Dr. Csilla Horváth, visiting researcher from the University of Helsinki, spent a short-term scientific mission at the Institute of Slavic Studies PAS between 7–22 September 2025, within the framework of the Plurilingmedia Cost Action.
During her stay, Horváth participated in academic discussion on the role of digitalisation and media practitioners in maintaining the ethnolinguistic vitality of minority languages without official status and literacy with researchers cooperating in the project “Linguistic Diversity in Poland: Collateral Languages, Language-oriented Activities, and Conceptualization of Collective Identity”.
She also had the opportunity to attend the III Festiwal Gwar Pogranicza (III Festival of Border Language Varieties) in Hajnówka on 13 September 2025.
Dr. Csilla Horváth during the 3rd Festival of Border Language Varieties in Hajnówka. Photo: private archive.Researchers before a seminar at the ISS PAS. From the left: Dr. Maciej Mętrak, Kamil Czaiński, Prof. Karolina Bielenin-Lenczowska, Dr. Csilla Horváth and Prof. Nicole Dołowy-Rybińska. Photo: Wiktoria Nylec.
The 17th (Extraordinary) International Congress of Slavists took place in Paris from August 25 to 30, 2025. There were researchers from the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (ISS PAS) among its participants.
On August 26, Prof. Dorota Krystyna Rembiszewska delivered a co-authored paper (with Janusz Siatkowski) entitled “Chronological Parameters in the Study of Lexis on the Polish–East Slavic Borderland”. On August 28, she represented Poland at the meeting of the national committees of the International Committee of Slavists (ICS). In addition, Prof. Rembiszewska assumed the chairmanship of the Commission on the Pan-Slavic Linguistic Atlas.
On Wednesday, August 27, at the request of the organizers, Prof. Ryszard Grzesik chaired the session entitled Rapports réciproques entre les cultures savantes slaves, byzantines et ouest-européennes jusqu’à l’époque modernę (Reciprocal Relations between erudite Slavic, Byzantine, and Western European Cultures until the Early Modern Period). Within this session, he presented a paper entitled “Hungarian Chroniclers on the Slavs”. The following day, he also chaired — in a hybrid format — a meeting of the Professor Gerard Labuda Commission on the Early History of the Slavs, which was accredited for the 2025–2029 term.
Prof. Piotr Sobotka delivered two lectures at the congress: on August 26, “Происхождение славянских экспонентов «истины» с функциональной точки зрения: заметки по этимологии и методу” (The Origin of Slavic Exponents of “Truth” from a Functional Perspective: Notes on Etymology and Method), and on August 30, “The Proto-Slavic Dictionary – Transition from the Printed to the Digital Version”. Furthermore, on August 28, during a meeting of the Etymological Commission, Prof. Sobotka was elected its secretary (with Prof. Marta Bjeletić from the Serbian Academy of Sciences as the chairperson). Among the newly elected Commission members there was also Dr. Szymon Pogwizd from the ISS PAS.
Prof. Alena Rudenka participated in Section 1.2. Histoire des langues slaves (History of the Slavic Languages), particularly in subsection 1.2.5. Interaction des langues slaves normées et des dialectes locaux à différentes périodes de l’histoire (Interaction of Standard Slavic Languages and Local Dialects in Different Historical Periods). Her paper focused on letters from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the 14th to 16th centuries. In addition to attending thematic sessions and round-table meetings, Prof. Rudenka also participated in the activities of the Commission for Slavic Ethnolinguistics at the Congress of Slavists, with which she has long been associated through her work on the EUROJOS project. The meeting was held in a hybrid format. A report on the Commission’s activities over the last six years has been published at: https://www.slavic-ethnolinguistics.org/home/novosti-events.
Dr. hab. Anna Engelking, Associate Professor at the ISS PAS, chaired Section 3.1.4. on August 29, titled L’héritage des grands slavistes (The Heritage of the Great Slavists), where she presented a paper entitled “The Unknown Face of Polish Slavic Anthropology: The Legacy of Józef Obrębski and Its Dissemination”.
On August 29, Dr. hab. Grażyna Szwat-Gyłybowa, Associate Professor at the ISS PAS, presented a paper entitled “The Topos of the «Immured Woman» in the 20th and 21st Century Bulgarian Scholarly Thought”, in which she discussed, among other things, the results of her research conducted within the OPUS grant of the National Science Centre entitled “The Topos of the «Immured Woman» in the Cultures of Southeastern Europe and Hungary”.
Dr. hab. Zofia Sawaniewska-Mochowa, Associate Professor (prof. em.) at the ISS PAS, also participated in the congress. On August 28, during a session of the Commission for Slavic Ethnolinguistics, she presented a paper and a visual presentation entitled “Women’s Ego-documents as Sources for Ethnolinguistic Research”. The paper was closely connected to the Polish-Lithuanian team project currently being carried out under the National Programme for the Development of the Humanities, entitled “The Ego-documents of Emilia Wróblewska (1850–1886) — A Testament of Life and Ideological Views of a Polish Woman from the Vilnius Intelligentsia. A Digital Edition of 7 Diaries with Critical Apparatus and an E-Monograph”. The lecture concerned methodological approaches to studying the complex mental construct of the identity of a woman living at the cultural crossroads during the time of partitions after the fall of national uprisings. The presentation sparked a lively and inspiring discussion. The session was attended by ethnolinguists from Poland, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, an independent researcher from Belarus, and Dr. Rima Cicėnienė, Director of Research at the Wróblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, who represented the project partner from Lithuania..
As part of the Congress, a meeting of the Commission on Linguistic Bibliography was held, chaired by Dr. Paweł Kowalski of the ISS PAS. During the session, new members were elected, including Dr. Roman Tymoshuk (ISS PAS), Dr. Jelena Janković (SANU), Dr. Ana Golubović (University of Belgrade), Dr. Julia Cygwinceva (NANU), Dr. Monika Łaszkiewicz (UMCS), and Dr. Ekaterina Petkova (BAS). Dr. Kowalski also participated in the thematic block of the Commission on Word-Formation and attended a meeting at the Serbian Embassy. Additionally, he is a candidate for the position of secretary of the Commission on the Pan-Slavic Linguistic Atlas.
This year, for the first time, the Slavic Studies Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with the publishing house of the Institute of Slavic Studies PAS, prepared the 14th volume in the series “From Polish Slavic Studies”, edited by Prof. Dorota Krystyna Rembiszewska, Prof. Ryszard Grzesik, and Prof. Stanisława Niebrzegowska-Bartmińska. As in previous years, the volume is divided into two parts: “Literary and Cultural Studies” and “Linguistics”. The volume includes papers by Polish historians, literary and cultural scholars, and linguists that were presented during the Paris congress.
Prof. Natalia Bernickaja, the chair of the ICS, announced that the next congress will take place in Prague in 2029.
Prof. Dorota K. Rembiszewska presenting her paper. Photo: private archive.From left: Prof. Dorota K. Rembiszewska, Prof. Krystyna Rutkowska, and Prof. Valentyna Sobol. Photo: private archive.ISS PAS staff together with other ICS participants. Photo: private archive.Entrance to the conference venue. Photo: Prof. Dorota K. Rembiszewska.Prof. Alena Rudenka on her way to the conference. Photo: private archive.Prof. Piotr Sobotka with Prof. Valentina Apresjan at the session dedicated to formal and functional syntax of Slavic languages. Photo: Prof. Dorota K. Rembiszewska.Prof. Grażyna Szwat-Gyłybowa with other congress participants. Photo: private archive.Prof. Piotr Sobotka at the congress opening. Photo: private archive.Prof. Ryszard Grzesik during his lecture. Photo: Prof. Dorota K. Rembiszewska.Prof. Zofia Sawaniewska-Mochowa on her way to the ethnolinguistic section meeting. Photo: private archive.Prof. Zofia Sawaniewska-Mochowa presenting her paper, chaired by Prof. Aleksy Judin from Belgium. Photo: private archive.Prof. Ryszard Grzesik and Prof. Piotr Sobotka with Prof. Aleksander Kikliewicz from the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn and Dr. hab. Mirosław Jankowiak from the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Photo: Prof. Alena Rudenka.Meeting of the Commission on Word-Formation at the ICS held at the Embassy of Serbia. Photo: private archive.
We invite you to a special debate (in Polish) „To, co zostało. Doświadczanie historii w post-migracyjnej Europie Środkowej” / “What Remains. Experiencing History in Post-Migratory Central Europe”, which will take place on October 8, 2025, at 6:00 PM at Pracownia Etnograficzna in Warsaw (4/6 Warecka Street).
This event is inspired by the latest issue of “Sprawy Narodowościowe. Seria nowa”. Together, we’ll explore the traces, memories, and challenges of histories in regions shaped by migration and change. In the lead-up to the debate, we’ve been featuring the articles from this issue on Facebook page of ERC StG Spectral Recycling. Be sure to check them out for background and insights.
We especially encourage you to read Michal Korhel’s and Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska’s editorial – they offer an introduction to the issue’s central themes.
Panelists:
Kamila Fiałkowska (University of Warsaw)
Agata Tumiłowicz-Mazur (New York University)
Dariusz Stola (Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences)
Moderator: Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska (PI in ERC StG Spectral Recycling and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Sprawy Narodowościowe)
The event is free and open to everyone! Let’s talk about memory, migration, and what stays with us.
As part of the COST Action PLURILINGMEDIA, Dr Csilla Horváth from the University of Helsinki is visiting the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences from 7 to 19 September 2025.
On Tuesday, 16 September, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., the seminar “Minority Language Media” will take place in a hybrid format — in the seminar room at the Institute of Slavic Studies PAS (ul. Jaracza 1, 5th floor) and online. The event is organized by Prof. Nicole Dołowy-Rybińska, and will be based on a talk by Dr Csilla Horváth entitled “Mansi Print, Broadcast and Social Media: Hierarchies, Perspectives and Indigenous Journalism”.
Those wishing to participate online can request the event link via the secretariat: sekretariat@ispan.edu.pl.
Description:
The Mansi are an indigenous people of Western Siberia, one of the three recognised minorities and 120 other ethnic groups of their region. Mansi is an endangered minority language without official status or significant economic importance. Mansi is traditionally spoken in the Mansi villages between the Ob River and the Ural Mountains; however, the proportion of urban Mansi has increased to 57% since World War II.
Regular Mansi media has been appearing since the 1990s, while Mansi users started to register to social media sites since the late 2000s. The presentation introduces the ethnolinguistic vitality of the Mansi language and it describes the significance of Mansi media and Mansi media practitioners in the maintenance of Mansi literacy and language planning and in the revitalistaion of the Mansi language.
Biography:
Dr Csilla Horváth. Photo: private archive.
Csilla Horváth, PhD, is a visiting researcher at the University of Helsinki. She is a linguist and anthropologist, specialised in the languages and cultures of the indigenous peoples of Western Siberia. During her linguistic research, she has studied urban language use and the ethnolinguistic vitality of the Ob-Ugric languages, during her anthropological research she has studied the urban ways of expressing ethnic identity as well as online activity of Mansi and Khanty users. During eight research trips she spent 18 months in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug between 2006 and 2019.
We invite submissions for issue 58 of the journal “Sprawy Narodowościowe. Seria nowa” (“Nationalities Affairs. New Series”), titled “Nation or Society? Strategies of Community Formation in Poland and Beyond”.
The 58th issue of our journal aims to explore the diverse strategies for building national and social community in Poland: from the period of Romanticism in early 19th century, through nationalist thought at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, to contemporary efforts to redefine social and national bonds.
We welcome both theoretical reflections and analyses of case studies – from the 19th century to the present. We especially encourage submissions that explore nationand community-building strategies beyond the Polish context. Articles meeting the publication criteria will appear in the “Constellations” section.
We invite submissions of scholarly papers to volume 50 of Acta Baltico-Slavica. The anniversary volume of our journal, entitled “Signs of the Times, Changes in Space, Transformations of Identity”, will be devoted to the processes of identity transformation, changes in space, and traces of time in the culture and languages of the countries of the Balto-Slavic region. We invite reflection on the interplay of time, space, identity and language, on how memories of the past influence the present, and how the heritage of the borderland is reinterpreted under the circumstances of globalisation, migration, and political tensions. We are interested in both historical aspects and contemporary phenomena related to collective memory and ethnic and linguistic identification. The volume is also open to submissions analysing linguistic minority narratives, cultural and linguistic landscape, and individual and collective identity in the linguistic space of the region.
The issues in focus include:
cultural heritage of the Borderlands (Kresy) and its reinterpretations in the twenty-first century (in literary texts, the press, political debates);
historical memory, local and national narratives in the Balto-Slavic area;
borderlands as spaces of contact, tension and intercultural cooperation;
analysis of changes occurring in the cultural and linguistic space of multi-ethnic towns and cities;
cultural landscape and cultural spaces lost and recovered through narratives, memory and art;
transformations in linguistic topography (the linguistic landscape of cities, towns and villages, the presence of minority languages and their visibility in public space);
ethnic, linguistic and regional identity in the context of modernisation, globalisation and European integration;
relationship between language and identity (language contact, bilingualism, interference, translanguaging in borderland communities);
changes in the self-identification of ethnic minorities; their self-narratives.
Apart from articles devoted to the issues in focus of this volume, we also invite submissions to our regular sections: “Sources and Materials”, “Discussions, Polemics, Review Articles”, “Reviews”, “Chronicle” and “New Publications”.
The deadline for submissions to volume 50 (to be made on the journal’s electronic platform) is 15 December 2025.
Please consider the following:
language of submissions (articles and commentaries on sources): English, Polish, Russian; source texts and materials: the original language;
planned date of publication of the volume: December 2026;
submissions should not exceed 40,000 characters (including spaces); this limit includes bibliography;
detailed information and guidelines for authors (general requirements, text formatting, bibliography guidelines, etc.) are available at the journal’s website in the section Submissions.
From June 30 to July 2, 2025, Dr Olha Tkachenko participated in the 21st Warsaw East European Conference (WEEC), organized by the Centre for East European Studies at the University of Warsaw.
This year’s conference was titled “Time of Global Turbulence: Challenges for Central and Eastern Europe”. Dr Tkachenko presented a paper entitled “Revealing and Counteracting Russian Narratives in Ukrainian Media. Case of YouTube” during the panel “Responding to Hybrid Threats: Disinformation and Democratic Resilience”.
Dr Tkachenko’s research is conducted within the framework of the project “Decolonization processes in Ukraine’s YouTube segment after February 24, 2022”, project no. 2024/08/X/HS2/00066, funded by the National Science Centre of Poland (Miniatura programme).
Dr Olha Tkachenko during a lecture. Photo: Iryna Polets-Gerus.Dr Olha Tkachenko during a lecture. Photo: Iryna Polets-Gerus.
We would like to inform you about the results of the competition for the position of post-doc (2) in the project “Faces of Smuggling in the Polish-Slovak Borderland between 1918 and 1949” ref. no. 2023/51/D/HS3/01105 affiliated at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. After the evaluation of the submitted documents and the interview the competition committee decided to employ Dr. Dariusz Nikiel in this position.
From 2 to 13 June 2025, the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Instytut Slawistyki PAN) welcomed Dr Lara Sorgo of the Institute of Ethnic Studies in Ljubljana as part of the PLURILINGMEDIA COST Action project. During her Short-Term Scientific Mission, Dr Sorgo had an excellent opportunity to learn about media in minority languages and their revitalisation, and to exchange ideas with fellow researchers.
Dr Lara Sorgo during a lecture for PhD students. Photo: private archive.
During her visit, Dr Sorgo gave a lecture to students of the Anthropos Doctoral School. In her lecture, titled “Between Policy and Practice: The Slovenian Model of Minority Protection”, she provided an overview of Slovenia’s minority protection model and presented empirical findings from research projects focusing on education, public administration and the media. Particular attention was paid to how radio, television, print, and digital media meet the needs of minority communities, with structured measures and practical challenges being highlighted.
ISS PAS organised a roundtable on minority language media. This scientific exchange provided a valuable opportunity to share ideas and obtain constructive feedback from experts in different research fields on MLM. Particular emphasis was placed on the role of minority language media in further developing and upgrading the theoretical framework of Dr Sorgo’s research.
Dr Lara Sorgo during a seminar at the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences. Photo: Wiktoria Nylec.In the photo from left to right: Dr Lara Sorgo, Prof. Karolina Bielenin-Lenczowska, and Prof. Nicole Dołowy-Rybińska. Photo: Wiktoria Nylec.Participants of the seminar on minority language media. Photo: Wiktoria Nylec.Prof. Nicole Dołowy-Rybińska during a seminar at the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences. Photo: Wiktoria Nylec.
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presented a paper entitled “The Topos of the «Immured Woman» in the 20th and 21st Century Bulgarian Scholarly Thought”, in which she discussed, among other things, the results of her research conducted within the OPUS grant of the National Science Centre entitled “The Topos of the «Immured Woman» in the Cultures of Southeastern Europe and Hungary”.
under the National Programme for the Development of the Humanities, entitled “The Ego-documents of Emilia Wróblewska (1850–1886) — A Testament of Life and Ideological Views of a Polish Woman from the Vilnius Intelligentsia. A Digital Edition of 7 Diaries with Critical Apparatus and an E-Monograph”. The lecture concerned methodological approaches to studying the complex mental construct of the identity of a woman living at the cultural crossroads during the time of partitions after the fall of national uprisings. The presentation sparked a lively and inspiring discussion. The session was attended by ethnolinguists from Poland, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, an independent researcher from Belarus, and Dr. Rima Cicėnienė, Director of Research at the Wróblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, who represented the project partner from Lithuania..
The 58th issue of our journal aims to explore the diverse strategies for building national and social community in Poland: from the period of Romanticism in early 19th century, through nationalist thought at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, to contemporary efforts to redefine social and national bonds.
Topic: Signs of the Times, Changes in Space, Transformations of Identity
